If you can live with its basic principles, though, Hola's core service is free for non-commercial use, and that's the product we're reviewing here. It's priced from $7.69 a month on the annual plan (opens in new tab). You can avoid many of these problems by upgrading to Hola Premium (opens in new tab), which doesn't share your bandwidth with other users, works on more platforms, and enables using a network of Hola's own servers. If they're sending spam, hacking or doing anything else dubious, your IP address could become the one associated with that action.

Maybe a more significant concern is that any Hola user could effectively become an exit server for someone else.

Even then, it claims to use no more than 3MB a day from mobile devices, 100MB from desktops. But the company says it only uses devices when they're idle, and connected to an electricity source. One potential issue is if you install one of the apps (not the browser extensions), you're allowing Hola to use some of your system and network resources, as other users access the sites they need via your connection.

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